Why do the olympics car if athlets smoke mary j?

marijuana is not a drug. but yea the olympics are lame and it would turn skiing very lame if we were admitted into them.
 
because sometimes you have to set rules and try to make sport respectful? because when you say no drugs you can't pick and choose? because when your an athlete at that calibure maybe you should worry more about being an athlete and being healthy than smoking "mary j" maybe because we want this sport to get bigger and have more respect in the public eye? maybe we don't want everyone thinking we are all pot heads? maybe we shouldn't have anymore dumbass comments from young kids who have no understanding of sport and probably just smoke weed cause they think they look cool?

Come on guys if we want to have a more proffesional image than we can't have our athletes known for smoking weed at the olympics if we get upset because they can't smoke than maybe we shouldn't be there
 
exactly, maybee we shouldn't be there. I dunno how much I think our type of skiing should be in the olympics. It would be cool to see it there but what we have is somthing sick. Havning it in the olympics will bring lots of attention to it and respect but do we really care what other people think about us? It's not a popularity contest it's about skiing for the love of the sport. I'm just putting that out there it's some stuff I've thought about it. Right now I stand somwhere in the middle on the matter
 
maybe if we don't look like the other sports maybe we should be happy staying away from the olympics were its had that professional image for such a long time that we can't come in and change it or should change it, X games or some kinda new compitition like the X games is the right place for us
 
it doesnt mean it's not illegal. It mean's that it's not that big an issue to the olympic committees.

people all over the world watch the games, i dont know about any of you, but i don't want the world thinking we're a bunch of pothead because of our snowboard team. its lame.
 
"Since, marijuana is not widely considered to be a performance enhancing drug, the Olympic governing body has not banned the smoking of dope by Olympic athletes."

sounds pretty clear to me
 
The Olympics showcase the worlds top talent in each respective sport discipline. Each athlete represents their country, their family, and their sport. The Olympics market heavily on the "role model" factor of athletes.

So basically, even though marajuana isnt a big deal, when you are representing your country at the highest competition level (not saying the olympics are the END all, but they are the most widely viewed), they want you to have a perfect image.

I understand that may seem lame, stupid , ect, but I honestly think its a good thing. When you are a representative of your country, just stay clean for a few months. Its just that SORT of thing, whether it makes sense or not. To win a medal in the Olympics is a HUGE acheivement, so id say its well worth not smoking for a few months to have a chance at that.
 
because its illegal. Like I dont care. But if they have proof of drugs in their blood it would be setting a pritty shitty example if they didnt care.
 
marijuana alters your perspectives, the way things affect you, and the way you react to things. it's known to alter your reaction times and change your performance. think about it, guys. have you ever been so drunk that you can hit your head an it doesn't hurt? just imagine that in the olympics -- especially in a sport like ours. yeah, i'll just throw a bio nine and take this 20 feet past the tranny, but that's okay! i'm high, so i can just get back up and do it again! that isn't fair to the athletes who aren't smoking, and it doesn't really demonstrate what you can do on your own. yeah, the skiing is coming from you, but your gumby-like body can keep crumpling and crumpling, while other people have to stop because they cased. frankly, i support that decision.

additionally, doesn't it show a little dedication to the sport if the athletes can go long enough without smoking to pass the drug tests? going thirty, forty days without blazing isn't going to kill you. i think it shows respect for our sport, respect for the other athletes, and a more thorough understanding of what it means to be an athlete of olympic calibre. (not that a lot of our favourite skiiers could be olympic athletes, because the olympics is for amateurs, and they're all pros.)

and just for some perspective: in the sydney 2000 olympics, the gold medallist in women's gymnastics was disqualified for testing positive to having a drug in her system. it was only trace amounts, but it was enough to disqualify her. the amount of the drug that was found in her body is the same as the amount that's found in one advil -- an advil she'd taken for a headache the night before. but that drug, in large enough quantities, has been shown to inprove your reflexes and reaction times and suppress pain, thus is illegal in the olympics. think on it.
 
Strange. The prohibited substances list for the Turin games specifically list cannabinoids.

S8. CANNABINOIDS

Cannabinoids (e.g. hashish, marijuana) are prohibited.

Can't get more cut-and-dry than that.

[url=http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_1037.pdf
 
Why would you ever compare being high to being drunk. Two completely different feelings/effects. When your drunk you cant do too much as compared to when your high you can do everything you can do sober. I get high and ski just about every time I ski and all it does is improve my skill as a skier. Its just as affective as workingout or tramping. I sertainly could ski good without blazing, but on the other hand why not do something that helps?
 
because thats called performance enhancement. your using something that anyone can buy with money to make yourself better without any additional effort. your entire arguement just supported what you were trying to disagree with, haha.

anyway, its a grey area.. its not like steroids.. and i assume the context of this situation is testing positive for thc in your body.. not actually competing while under its influence. This is a BIG difference, as is stays in your system for up to 5 weeks after last use with no effect on your function.

 
no need for the caps.

By the way, if you'd actually like to take the time to pull your head out of your backside, you'd realize that that is his opinion, not mine.

In all honsty, it probably makes it more difficult to ski well for most people, but everyone reacts differently, and there lies one of the problems.

i swear people on this website are half illiterate.. or just really stupid.
 
think about it this way... the more popularity the sport gains...the more money. what does this translate into? better r&d programs, in result better product, and more ample opportunity for deserved individuals to be compensated for what they love, skiing. why not reap the benefits of popularity rather than bitch about it when anyone else picks up the sport... if it wasnt for interest, none of you would even be riding park skis.
 
beaxces stoners smell bad and th athlest dont want sd to dorm witrh stinky weed heads, other s than the smell factor i have no idea

 
You're allowed to have a small ammount of weed in your blood stream. That crazy hooligan of a Canadian snowboarder just had too much in his system.
 
I'd don't see why people get so dam emothional bout this just quit the herb and start drinkin heavily it works
 
you cant compete high but you can test positive for THC. first off if testing positive for THC got you kicked out of the games. the snowboard halfpipe competition would have been a 2 or 3 person competition. second off some countries havnt made Marijuana illegal so not allowing a non-performance enhancing substance would be unfair to the countries that allow weed. the same way that not allowing alchohol because its illegal in some countries would be unfair to the athletes who drink legally in their country.
 
actually THC is illegal according to the ioc. your^ argument about how some countries havent made weed illegal so their athletes should be able to use it is complete bullshit. u must not have an understanding of the sort of things that are on the IOc's banned substances list. it includes many legal substances: cough syrup, ibuprofen, ADD medicine, asthma medicine, etc. not just steroids. that article that was posted is complete bullshit. not a legit source at all. go to the iocs website. anyone remember how in the 1998 games in japan the canadian parallel snowboarder that won the gold got his medal taken away for failing for THC?
 
It seems fairly pathetic to me that people want it to be allowed that bad anyway. Can we say addiction?
 
plus itl make us look bad. Snowboarders are the ones who are known for smoking lots of weed. if skiers come in and just copy every single trend in snowboarding what will that say about our sport.

in a realistic sence and I know alot of you guys hate to hear this but skiing is to snowboarding what rollerblading is/was to skateboarding.

which really doesnt bother me since I love skiing and I dont need respect from others to keep doing it
 
maybe we don't want everyone thinking we are all pot heads?

man, fuck stereotypes who cares what they think.
 
wrong. snowboarders are people... they arent these retarded doped out biased ignorant entities. fuck, copying snowboarding, that doesnt even make sense... its just wearing baggy clothes and doing something stylish, every extreme sport does that in case you havnet noticed.
 
It's considered an illegal drug.

end of story.

Professional Athletes ruled by a governed body arn't allowed to do illegal drugs.

 
I didnt read anyones posts, so I dont know if this has been said but..... Some people believe that the Ganj opens up your lungs, so you have a larger lung capacity and clearer breathing. So that could be a preformance enhancer....
 
i just lost about ten iq points when i read that. the day athletes get drunk before a ski competition so the can compete BETTER? quite frankly, their is no logic in that statement at all. although the smoking ban may or may not be good, alcohol in no way will make you perform better. period.
 
what a dumb question. maybe because nearly the whole world watches the olympics and they want to uphold some sort of image. some dumb white kid might get the idea he can run 100m's in under 10s if he smokes weed. and i know heaps of ppl love the chronic on this site but it's seriously isn't good for u
 
im not saying all snowboarders smoke weed. just on this site I keep on hearing that the stereotipical skier is a stoner which if you talk to anyone who doesnt frequent this site is not what most people think of when they think skiers.

snowboarders on the other hand do have that stereotipe associated to them.

Snowboarding and skiing is pretty much the same sport, the pros have the same lifestyles, and to someone who doesnt participate in either sport seing it will either amaze them or bore them. so why so much hate?

snowboarding owes alpine skiing alot for pretty much inventing downhill snowsports and newschool skiing or freeskiing owes alot if not everything to snowboarding and alpine skiing owes freeskiing for renewing the sport.

and I owe alot to all of these sports for giving me something that no matter how shitty or bad I feel I can do one of them and feel like if its the best day of my life.

but back to the weed thing.it seems that people who want skiing in the Olympics want it for respect, they want skiing to be taken seriously which if you go and try to show how cool and freespirited skiers are by using the whole weed smoking aproach then to the general public itl just look like if were copying snowboarding.

once again I dont care. I love skiing, I love snowboarding (even though I havnt done it in about 5 or 6 years) and I dont need the sport to get respect or to become super mainstream or anything.parks will continue to be well financed because we use the same jumps and half pipes as they do.
 
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